Academics

Current Ph.D Students

• Zhi Yong William Liu

• Sayan Kumar Ray

• Huan Zhang

• Muhammad Asad Arfeen

• Mofassir Ul Haque

• Ehsan Tabatabaei Yazdi

Current Masters Students

• Yuxuan Tim Hong

• Adam Chang

• Geoffrey Clark

Recent Graduates and Research Students

Ph.D Graduates

• Shehan Perera (Dept. of ECE, 2008): Topic - "Wireless Networks". Currently working at Telecom NZ, Wellington.

• Aiyathurai Jayananthan (Dept. of ECE, 2008): Topic - "Wireless Networks". Currently working at Transpower NZ, Wellington.

• Aun Haider (Dept. of ECE, 2004): Topic - "Improved Congestion Control for Packet Switched Networks and the Internet". Currently a post doc fellow at Tokyo, Japan.

• Mohammed Rezvan (Dept. of COSC, 2001): Topic - "Communication Protocols for Internet".

• Victor Yau (Dept. of COSC, 1996): Topic - "WDM Network Design and Destination Conflicts". Currently a Professor in Singapore

• Felix Hartanto (Dept. of EEE, 1994): Topic - "User-Network Oriented Call Controlled and Traffic Management in B-ISDN Networks". Currently a Lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Masters Graduates

• Weibo Li (Dept. of ECE, 2008): Topic - "An Address-Based Routing Scheme for Static Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks".

• Arpan Mandal (Dept. of ECE, 2008; NZi3 Masters Scholarship recipient): Topic - "Mobile WiMAX - Pre-Handover Optimization using Hybrid Base Station Selection Procedure". Currently working at Tait Electronics, Christchurch.

• Charles Lee Begg (Dept. of CSSE, 2007; TIF Scholarship recipient and Distinction holder): Topic - "High Quality Video Streaming with SCTP over CDMA2000". Currently working at Media Lab, Wellington.

• Feng Deng (Dept. of ECE, 2007): Topic - "Seamless Handover Between WiFi and CDMA2000 Networks via SCTP". Currently working at Tait Electronics, Christchurch.

• Fong Loong Chong (Dept. of CSSE, 2005; TIF Scholarship recipient): Topic - "Multilingual Automated Speech Assessment".

• Jin Lin (Dept. of ECE): Topic - "An Enhanced MAC Scheme with Contention-based Channel Access (EDCP) for Multi-Hop Ad-Hoc Networks".

• Zhi Yong William Liu (Dept. of ECE, 2005): Topic - "Resource Alllocation Schemes for Ultra Wideband Networks". Currently a Ph.D student in the same Department.

• Priyan De Alwis (Dept. of ECE, 2005): Topic - "Call Admission Control and Resource Utilization in WCDMA Networks".

• Sung Rae Cho (Dept. of ECE, 2004): Topic - "An End-to-End Freeze TCP for Ad-Hoc Networks".

• Sung Yung Yi (Dept. of CSSE, 2004; TIF Scholarship): Topic - "Performance of Internet Telephony under SIP Protocol".

• Francis Jing J. Chai (Dept. of ECE, 2004): Topic - "Micro-Mobility Management and Freeze-TCP Implementation in Wireless Network".

• Yen-Sun Dan Rong (Dept. of COSC, 2004; Bright Future Scholarship recipient): Topic - "A Routing Protocol for Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks".

• Abdulla Firag (Dept. of ECE, 2003): Topic - "A Distributed Wireless MAC Scheme for Service Differentiation in WLANs".

• Carl Cook (Dept. of COSC, 2001): Topic - "Active Networks".

• Enoch Chi-chi Kao (Dept. of COSC, 2001): Topic - "MAC Protocols for Wireless Networks".

• S. Mahmod (Dept. of EEE, 2000): Topic - "CAC Techniques for Wireless ATM Networks".

• Mohammad Rezvan (Dept. of COSC, 1998): Topic - "A Reservation Scheme for Medium Access Protocols in Wireless Communication Networks".

• Justin R Macfarlane (Dept. of COSC, 1998): Topic - "Wavelength and Time Division Multiplexing with Tresspassing Protocol for All Optical Star Local Area Networks".

• Nurul Sarkar (Dept. of COSC, 1996): Topic - "Communication Protocols and Architectures of High-Speed Fiber-Optic Data Communication Networks".

• Richard Lynders (Dept. of EEE, 1994): Topic - "Quantitative Stochastic Simulation of Nonstationary Effects in Telecommunication Networks".

• H. Anggawijaya (Dept. of COSC, 1994): Topic - "Performance Evaluation of Flow Control and Admission Control Mechanisms for Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks".

• Lee Quak-Yoong (Dept. of EEE, 1991): Topic - "Performance Evaluation of Enhancements to Distributed Queue Dual Bus Protocol".

• C. Karthikayan (Dept. of EEE, 1990): Topic - "Performance Modelling and Evaluation of High Speed Metropolitan Networks".

International Exchange Students visiting Network Research Group (since 2004)

• Farzana Yasmeen (September - November 2008) - Ph.D Student from the University of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

• Michele Scuito (July 2006 - March 2007) - Ph.D Student from the University of Genova, Italy.

• Brian Mortensen (Jan 2004 - June 2004)) - Ph.D Student from Technical University of Copenhagen, Denmark.